The least ordinary masters and craftsmen who served in the shipyard have been in the shipbuilding industry for more than ten years. In fact, most people have a basic concept of how to manufacture and connect various components on the ship. Some masters even missed the last step, leaving only the master's skill that he had not learned.

In fact, in the era of knowledge explosion in later generations, many so-called secrets of craftsmanship had long become rags, especially in food recipes.

Many so-called secret sauces, if no one guides you to explore, will be confused in most cases. No matter how you adjust, you will not be able to adjust the taste of others.

But things are all those things, but what if you know the secret recipe? The seasonings are still those seasonings. The combination is slightly wrong and the taste is completely different. Only the correct recipe can produce delicious food that is suitable.

The same is true for other types of food. If we look back from the results, it is just a layer of window paper. But if we explore it myself, we can't even think about why.

In fact, there are similar tricks to making ships that are worthless if they break the window paper. However, they just don’t break it for you, otherwise how can they make a living by relying on their skills?

However, when the times progress and technology reaches a certain level, the so-called secret techniques are not worth mentioning.

As these masters and dagongs with rich shipbuilding experience joined the discussion, Xiao Heng and his group of students finally fell into the ground.

After carefully listening to the workers' suggestions, the final new version of the iron keel trough is 8 meters long and 3.2 meters wide, and a "u"-shaped boat with a displacement of about 35 tons.

The most core part is an iron keel with the shape of "meta".

That's right, based on the original "||" keel, four horizontal metal reinforced structures were added.

Once upon a time, in order to use smaller wood to create a hull of sufficient strength, Chinese shipbuilders invented various complex structures after inventing the mortise and tenon mechanism, which can firmly fix the wooden boards to the hull. How to fix them to ensure strength is a secret that many shipbuilders need to be more than one year old.

However, at this moment, when the iron keel bone appeared, the secret techniques that once once lost their value.

Under this "mean"-shaped steel keel frame, the newly built ship is enough to ensure that there is no water leakage. No need to consider other things like how to inlay, how to connect, etc.!

After this plan came out, it was finally Wang Tiechui who had watched it for a long time and came on the stage.

He held the drawings and looked carefully at the data marked on it. He suddenly looked up and asked, "How to connect this position? Or use riveting?"

"Yes, that's how we think." Lu Chun turned around and looked at his friends, and then answered after communicating with them.

"Then you can only rivet here. Can the strength be guaranteed?" Wang Tiechui saw the children's design shortcomings at a glance. After all, he participated in the birth of the first riveting product - the frame of the four-wheeled carriage, so he knew very well the strength of riveting and the strength that steel itself could withstand.

"Ah? Is this how?" After all, Lu Chun and others had no practical experience, so there were still some mistakes in the design. They quickly went back and discussed it with their friends, and then consulted with the masters to strengthen the structure. Finally, they came up with a complete plan.

When this plan was completed, it was sent to Xiao Heng.

"What are you doing? Let me see?" Xiao Heng smiled.

"Yes, teacher, please see if we have any omissions..." Lu Chun said seriously.

"This time, you have to rely on yourself." Xiao Heng shook his head and pushed back the plan. "This is something you must experience. You children always have a time to stand alone, and I can't be by your side at that time... So you have to learn to solve this kind of thing yourself."

Xiao Heng said that he paused here. Looking at the children's slightly disappointed and nervous eyes, he finally gave them a reassurance: "Although I don't participate, my suggestion is to do the drawing work carefully, especially for projects that cannot be verified by small-scale experiments. The drawing work must be tireless, and it must be eliminated and all problems that can be eliminated at this stage to reduce the losses after the project begins."

"..." After hearing Xiao Heng's words, Lu Chun and others fell into deep thought. Even the boatmen and Lao Zhou and Xiao Zhou who didn't quite understand what they said were also fell into deep thought.

In the end, Lu Chun returned to the center of his friend with that plan, and once again went to deduce several drawings. Finally, after finding a few small bugs, the entire project finally reached the stage of practice.

At this stage, it's simpler.

Xiao Heng and the others reported the parts and parameters to the blacksmith shop. In less than 3 hours, the various steel structure materials and processed parts they needed were sent!

This efficiency scares the boat workers of all sizes and the father and son of Zhou... In this era, even if you want a big spoon or a hoe, if you find someone to do it now, you have to wait for three or two days...

What about Lu Chun and the others? They have customized such huge steel components! In the eyes of those ship workers, it is necessary to wait a month for such huge steel components to be delivered? And it has to be done with all their efforts to give up other jobs.

However, they didn't know that the blacksmith workshop on Xiao Heng had already undergone assembly line transformation, and it was basically one-stop from rough steel to rolled steel forming. Moreover, Lu Chun and his designs were based on several existing standardized steel plate products, so the biggest difficulty was processing and drilling.

With dozens of skilled riveting workers coming from this batch of materials, they immediately started to work after arriving at the place and assembled the parts that had been built... In just one afternoon, the entire "mesh"-shaped box-shaped keel frame was completed like this!

"Dad, these people... are too fast?" Xiao Zhou didn't close his mouth this afternoon, as if he had a light bulb in his mouth.

"These people... are a little strange." Old Zhou couldn't tell what was the strange thing about Xiao Heng and the others.

The owners of the shipyard are like this, and the other workers in the shipyard are constantly guessing.

However, Xiao Heng's students are no longer surprised by this kind of engineering speed - some riveting workers are their own elders or even their own fathers!

Moreover, even if everyone who has not been married to each other lives in the same village, they usually know each other if they don’t look up but don’t look down… So they can also come forward to help wipe sweat, hand over water, etc.

In such a happy scene, a box-shaped keel frame that originally thought would take some time to build appeared in front of hundreds of people in the shipyard! Not to mention the boatmen were stunned, even the wives who brought them food were stunned!

Although these ship workers are also workers in a sense, compared to Xiao Heng and others who have experienced the baptism of industrialization, these ship workers can only be regarded as handicraftsmen in small workshops.

The difference lies in education and standards.

Everything on Xiao Heng and the others has an operation manual, and every mature riveting worker has undergone systematic training - not only learning knowledge in the night school, but also training their professional skills.

So when these riveting workers start working, everyone will rivet according to the same standards. When one person is tired, he will naturally replace the next one directly, and there is no need for any communication... because the standards have been set, just follow them.

Don’t underestimate this. The reason why the master cannot build a ship if he is poached is because the process is opaque and non-standardized, so some key steps are not allowed to be played without these masters.

However, in the era of large-scale industrialization, everyone is just a brick or a screw, and there are standardized substitutes at any time. Everyone can also play their own value, have a clear direction of effort and an open promotion system.

In such an environment, if you want to become a master, you don’t need to flatter or be an endless apprentice who doesn’t have to be a money-free apprentice. As long as you work hard and accumulate experience, you will naturally be promoted when your ability reaches your level... And this is the so-called institutional advantage.

All the workers under Xiao Heng enjoy equality, freedom and open upward passages. In such a small corner created by Xiao Heng, even ordinary people can be liberated from heavy personal dependence and class oppression.

So whether it is Xiao Heng's students or workers, everyone is full of independence and confidence, and this confidence is extremely contagious.

At first, the workers at the shipyard had not noticed this infectiousness. When Xiao Heng and the others left, they saw a few very ordinary workers picking up the students who were very proud, and the others were talking and laughing with the students...

...And not only that, Xiao Heng also talked and laughed with the workers, and when everyone left, they left in the same carriage. Even a lot of workers even got on Xiao Heng's carriage.

This strange but very equal social relationship makes the mentality of the boat workers who live completely in a personal dependence relationship a little strange... they are both rejected and want to understand.

Xiao Heng and the others naturally didn't know the complex mentality of the boat workers behind them. The group happily went home and got off work, and returned to the shipyard early the next day.

But this time the protagonist will no longer be Xiao Heng's students, but the boatmen in the shipyard.

In factories that have not undergone assembly line transformation, many parts seem to have the same shape and the standards, but in fact there are still some errors, and sometimes this error is quite large...

Fortunately, the most basic wooden boards can be guaranteed, and the scale of this kind of canal is relatively small, so it is enough to continue to complete it step by step according to the previous shipbuilding steps.

However, the students were not idle either. They painted the steel keels that formed the hull, wrapped them with oil cloth or wrapped them firmly with wood covered with tung oil.

Xiao Heng once told them the principle of steel oxidation, so they now try their best to wrap these steel keels... but they don’t know which method is better, so they used a variety of different methods.

Of course, this ship will not be sold in the end. It will be used as the No. 1 test ship to conduct various new technologies... The first test is the anti-rust treatment of steel keels.

Just as a frame-like house is built faster than a traditional house, after the weighing body becomes an iron keel, the canal ship that does not have to consider other details is completely completed in less than five days!

Even the workers in the shipyard did not expect this efficiency...

...You must know that this was during the Southern Song Dynasty when a bow needed to be built for a year! Normally, it would take about half a year to build a smaller canal ship, and it is not impossible to drag it for a year slower!

At this time, with the first day, it was not even more than a week since they built a canal ship! This surprised Director Zhou... This efficiency was simply terrible!

The next thing is quite scattered, mainly testing and coordination in all aspects, and then sailing and getting started.

At this time, the sail used by this canal ship was still a traditional Chinese hard sail, and Xiao Heng did not bring in the more advanced sail system... After all, it was a bit overwhelming.

After the sail was on, they were launched. Lu Chun and the others were planning to recruit some sailors, and then they used this ship to run the canal transportation and other things... On the one hand, actual businessmen could test the performance of the iron keel boat, and on the other hand, they also wanted to standardize and line-based transformation of the entire shipyard.

Xiao Heng naturally wanted to promote the units of measurement he was familiar with, and what he was familiar with was of course the set of modern weights and measures such as rice, decimeter, centimeter, millimeter, micrometer, etc.

As for the quantity of the [Literature Museum      www.wxguan.info], Xiao Heng did not take too much steps. After all, the ships at the end of the year only talked about the "maximum amount of material", and they did not even have the concept of displacement.

It is actually easy to unify weights and measures. Although Qin Shihuang had developed a standard weight and measure system after unifying the six countries, in fact, there are still different weight and measure standards across the country.

For example, shipbuilders have their own "rule", and their standards are different from the official "Song Rule" of the Song Dynasty. Even the weights and measures used by each famous master will be different due to their respective preferences... So when Xiao Heng began to implement the standard weights and measures system, he unexpectedly had no resistance.

Of course, this may also have something to do with the fact that the shipyard has no master... After all, how to determine the weights and measures before is the right of the masters.

As for Xiao Heng... Xiao Heng did not follow up after the construction of the canal ship. He had completely thrown the matter on the canal ship to his students because he had some other things to be busy with.
Chapter completed!